The Tenants of Malory

d ordered the cabman, in a loud

London knew Verney House! The house of Lord Viscount Ve

ach it in. It was partly to get rid of a spare half hour,

ased his feelings by making a note of this resolution in that valuabl

e of time and worse-resolved that this gentleman being inaccessible to reason, is not to

of vehicles, and he put his head out of window, not being sorry for

Do, pray, get me out of this, any way, and you shall have a gratuity of half-a-crown. Verney

Lord Verney, with whom he was stealing into a general confidence wh

e sacrificed, and the augurs and haruspices on both sides had predicted nothing but amity and concord. Game, fruit, and venison, went and came,-"Much good may it do your good heart." "It was ill-killed," &c. Master Shallow and Master Page could not have been more

ur meant something like vassal, and Etherage who had set up his banner and arrayed his power on the other side, was a rebel-the less forgivable th

Ware; and those wonderful fresh figs, green and purple, which Lord Verney affected, for which Hazelden is famous, and which Vane Etherage was fond of informing his guests were absolutely unequalled in any part of the known world! England could not approach them for bulk and ripeness, nor foreign parts-and he had eaten figs wherever figs grow-for aroma and flavour,

his lawyers there were some very unpleasant questions mooted affecting the tit

and returning to a smaller library-devoted to blue books and pamphlets-where he had left a despa

say to me?" said the handsome young man,

well; but no, I had not any communication to make. Shall

se to say how much obliged I am for the very

ur approbation; but I fear, sir, as yet I can hardly hope

uncle is by no means so reserved, and he has told me very frankly the care you have been so goo

the attorney without allusion to the topic that made him positively hateful in his eyes; but it was not easy to hint at it,

ood mounted to his hollow cheeks, and up to the summit of his tall bald head; his eyes took their rat-like character, and looked dangerously in his for a second, and then down to the floor, and scanned his own boots; and he bit his lip, and essaye

an, "where duty and expediency pull in opposite dir

de at all event

e than once in the course of my life. It is our duty to submit to misinterpretation, as

ient of yo

d Verney, I will say-to his views of what the in

I venture to think; more than you seem to suspect. He seems to think, and so do I, that I've a voice in it, an

mentioning the subject to you, who certainly,

the concession,

, Mr. Cleve Verney," re

to think that I ought to be allowed to advise a little in the matter, and that with every respect for his wishes; mine also are entitled to be a l

ttle puzzled; but encountering only a look of stern imp

r, in came our old

u did not want to see my uncle just now; and this is the

r Cleve, I'm in such awful trouble. Everything has gone wrong with us at Hazelden. You know that quarrying compa

the Llanrw

so I

te ruined, you

less he can get it on a mortgage of the Windermore estate, he can't possibly pay them-and I've bee

d looking very tired. I am afraid these tragic confidences of Tom Sedle

say, while this li

they won't," a

, you know, Mr. Ethe

ut, I say again

ng can be done with Lord Ver

h, dear Tom, you could t

Cleve-it can't," urge

might as well talk to that pict

pleasure to him to

tween ourselves, forgiving i

, and liked in the county-it would be a scanda

er forgives anything. I don't think he perceives he's taking a revenge; he has not mind

n eloquent fellow, and there'

ll; but, by Jove, you could hardly choose a worse advocate just now, for he's teasing me to do what I can't do. If you

ry?" said Tom, overlooking his frie

don't expect the slightest good from it,

to-night. Would it be too much to ask you for a li

isk of trouble. You mustn't think me unkind, but it would b

in time for post; and to pen a few lines for old Vane Etherage, and try to speak